The Funkwhale music platform is alive and in active development, and they’re working on a feature to filter far-right artists off the network. Some Fediverse self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.

  • Frank Casa@frank.casa
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    2 days ago

    How decentralized is Funkwhale? Does everything go through their website, or do you host your own version and you get the music directly from the artists?

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      It’s self-hosted. Originally, Funkwhale was an open source Grooveshark clone, where users uploaded music libraries to stream to various devices. A newer update introduced Channels, where artists could create their own profiles and upload their songs. So, Funkwhale kind of straddles a line between federating user libraries and artist uploads.